[KDE-Sonnet] Some new language related services
Jordi
raigengo at yahoo.es
Sun Jan 28 23:08:40 CET 2007
hi,
I have thought about a couple of languages related services that may be
interesting:
- IIRC the code of Kiten (japanese-english dictionary in kde-edu) contains a
pretty README about what the authors wanted Kiten became (just read it for
technical details).
They wanted a dictionary service, not limited to any specific language.
Something like a service that can have its owns dictionaries, use ditc.com ,
wikictionary or whatever.
It can be used for Kiten itself and to create a KDE equivalent to the superb
God_how_I_love_it Stardict .
- A translation service. I know it is similar to those thousand
yes_I_also_did_one extensions of firefox (the easiest way is just to connet
to some page and get the translation). But with a translation service, we can
add this functionality to konqueror, kword, kmail, Amarok (for lyrics :P),
etc.
- A wikipedia related service. Amarok already uses wikipedia. I think that
wikipedia will be a source of knowledge for the desktop. I'm still not sure
how it will be so, but I'm sure of it :P
So we have a pretty lot of interesting things to do with a given text (Some
more difficult to achieve than others). Given a text or word:
- Guess its language (being developed, good progress)
- Check its spell (being developed, good progress)
- Check its grammar (no much free software available to do it)
- Check its style (same as before)
- Know its definition (dictionary service needed, should be easy)
- Know related information (wikipedia service needed)
- Translate it (translation service needed, should be easy )
Are all these intersting for KDE or freedesktop?
--
Jordi Polo
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